Barn at East Elms Farm, Moor Road, Great Broughton, Cockermouth CA13 0YT Data via plota.co.uk

HOU/2026/0126 - Householder planning permission Approved

Proposal

Conversion of redundant barn into a residential annex to the existing farmhouse, including PV Solar Roof Mounted System with velux windows, new doors and windows, along with internal layout changes. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 28 Oct 2026, 01:18

Application progress

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Received

around 8 Sept 2026

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Validated

11 Sept 2026

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Approved

around 20 Oct 2026

Approved around 20 Oct 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 21 Oct 2026

Documents 11

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Officers Report Officer Report · 20 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Decision Notice Unsigned Decision · 20 Oct 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 8

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Redacted Application Form · 25 Aug 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 8

Recorded mine shaft about 24 m from the postcode pin

Reference 307531-018. Building over or close to a mine entry should be avoided, even once it is capped.

From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.

Coal mining risk assessments ↗

Public footpath about 24 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Also on the record

Special area of conservation about 417 m away: River Derwent & Bassenthwaite Lake; SSSI about 417 m away: Buttermere SSSI; Inside the Great Broughton and Little Broughton built-up area; Open access land about 47 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed.; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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